as per all the other Posts we have this issue as well. Seeing as VBA code and Macro's don't run in web app we are faced with users being irritated in having to ensure that they go through the long steps of opening in desktop app to get the spreadsheet to run. Often there are cases when this is forgotten and data is messed up. REALLY would love to hear if the feature to restrict opening in desktop app only for files is being worked on !!!!

I work in an organisation that has implemented Teams and I honestly cannot name one person in my organisation who would prefer the online version of office to default instead of desktop. Online is slow,clunky and generally useless.

I'd also like to vote for this improvement. As I see, users have been waiting for a while but it's still the same. Opening files online is the most annoying feature for me in Teams despite many other benefits.

Pretty much all complaints i hear are related to missing shortcuts. Teams differ from Online differs from desktop. While this is the case it's uncomfortable to use more than one option, and I don't know anyone to always be content without desktop, so here we are.

This should have been standard functionality from the outset. I have sharepoint configured to open in desktop app as the default behavior. Teams is not looked on favorably because of this irritating behavior of having to click multiple times to get a file to open in the desktop app. Agree with anonymous - the current behavior is a waste of time.

I would also like to add my voice to the request for this, it's super irritating that when you click on a document in files, the default behaviour is to use the inbuilt viewer within the Teams window, which doesn't give a good experience for editing and also means that you can't browse elsewhere in the Teams application to find another document or access chat, since it is a single view.

Yes, please. We use teams in our company with many users. It's a general concern that you can't set your properties to open shared Office files always in the Client app.
E.g. when you share a document to edit with team members it's obious that you don't use the online version.

It is a pity that in Team I cannot set the setting to open Excel, Word etc. in client application. The option to use Online is no added value as you hardly can do anything except of seeing information in a limited display version. Can you please provide an update when this feature will be available (as in SharePoint)?